Constitutional pluralism divides opinion. What makes it attractive to some in a globally connected world also accounts … for the scepticism of others. Its allure lies in its ambition to square two ideas – ‘constitutionalism’ and ‘pluralism …, with the state as its key unit of analysis. As for pluralism, whether a ‘first order’ pluralism of social constituencies …

In the literature on European and global governance there is a trend to conceptualize ‘public accountability’ as … accountability to national executives, to peers, to markets, to ombudsmen, or to courts. While the empirical analysis of multiple … accountability relations within governance networks has its merits the creeping re-conceptualization of ‘public accountability’ as an …